The "have a look at this!" thread II

Running_Horse

Mickygg wrote: »

Wow. It's prices like this that drills home how mad london is!!

Under offer as well omg!

It's quite good value for the area. If I were young and looking for my own place, I would rather pay half a million for a small freehold house than the multi-million price tag on some nearby flats.

Mardle

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54543865.html

Spot the photographer

bouicca21

Took a Google Streetview walk down Bridle Lane and couldn't see a small two storey building, so not sure how it is freehold, unless it's down some tiny alleyway I missed.

I'll vote for it being down an alley fronted by the black door under the coach lamp.

If I were young and looking for my own place, I would rather pay half a million for a small freehold house than the multi-million price tag on some nearby flats.

No even when young and far more foolish than I am now, I could never live in such a small space. Though given the location, it might be quite useful for a working girl.

Running_Horse

Soho has changed and continues to do so. It would be more useful to someone my Dad used to refer to as being rampantly gay.

bagpussbear

Mardle wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54543865.html

Spot the photographer

Ooh that's a bit eerie! reminded me of Slender Man

Davesnave

bagpussbear wrote: »

Ooh that's a bit eerie! reminded me of Slender Man

Eerie or not, it certainly doesn't do anything to take the Grim out of Grimsby!

moneyistooshorttomention

Mardle wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54543865.html

Spot the photographer

That's quite a reasonable house for a starter home actually - if you rip out the bathroom basically. The garden could be made attractive with a bit of effort.

Actually - I quite like wood cladding to a house - though I'm guessing that particular house needs a bit of maintenance work on that.

I rather like the idea that wood cladding on the outside of a house is fashionable now and have seen some newly-built houses with it on the one hand and some revamped older places (which I knew very well at one time and look a heck of a sight better for it) with it.

How can you guess I'm wondering whether to get fashionable-style wood cladding put up on the outside of my "boring box" place at some point if I can afford it?:rotfl:

vivatifosi

Running_Horse wrote: »

The smallest house on Rightmove?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54379189.html

Yours for £550,000.

It's a shame that they couldn't manage the layout better. It looks as though there is no window to the bedroom as they chose to put the bathroom in front of it instead.

bouicca21

Well to be horribly practical, that sort of (once fashionable but surely fashionable no longer) cladding soon deteriorates. I know several people who have had it, on 1970s type houses. They have all had to replace it with plastic look alike as the wood soon goes rotten.

And Money believe me doing something to your house that makes it look anything other than what it is, is usually a mega mistake.

Rain_Shadow

bouicca21 wrote: »

Well to be horribly practical, that sort of (once fashionable but surely fashionable no longer) cladding soon deteriorates. I know several people who have had it, on 1970s type houses. They have all had to replace it with plastic look alike as the wood soon goes rotten.

And Money believe me doing something to your house that makes it look anything other than what it is, is usually a mega mistake.

I have it on the front gable my 1969 house. Recently rubbed it down and resealed it. It's teak and in absolutely perfect condition even though it had been neglected for many years. It now looks beautiful.